accusativism

Noun

accusativism (uncountable)

1. (Dutch) The use of originally accusative forms of pronouns, adjectives, articles, etc., in the nominative.
   • Table 1 shows the results of our corpus study. We can see that, in the cases of the diphthongs, the long vowels, and accusativism, the variants perceived as Northern are dominant across the board, even as early as 1823, which in many localities was the first time in decades that these sorts of...2012, Rik Vosters, Gijsbert Rutten, Marijke van der Wal, and Wim Vandenbussche, “Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750–1830)”, in Alexandra Jaffe, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba...
   • Examples of accusativism are very common in present-day dialects in Belgium, in dialects spoken in the Southern parts of the Netherlands, as well as in Southern supraregional or regiolectal speech (Goossens 2008: 137–47).2015, Rik Vosters and Gijsbert Rutten, “Three Southern shibboleths: Spelling features as conflicting identity markers in the Low Countries”, in Written Language & Literacy, volume 18, number 2, →DOI...